Games where you kill (a) god
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Xenoblade chronicles has you kill the literal creator of hte world, who was once a German scientist.
You are correct. From memory, the basic plotline of Lightning Returns:Willinium said:
The world is ending and Bhunivelze (aka the Creator) has created a new world and empowers Lightning to be his champion tasked with rescuing souls of the worthy in order to populate it. He says that she will be reunited with her sister in the new world if she succeeds. Over the course of the game she gradually discovers that Bhunivelze is not being entirely truthful and that he's a bit of a dick, and in the true ending she fights and kills him, and guides the souls of all humanity (including the "unworthy" that Bhunivelze was going to obliterate cause he's a dick) to the new world. Everyone lives happily ever after, except possibly Hope, because reasons. The end.
As for other games, It was a long time ago when I played them, but I remember Xenogears and Grandia 2 both having a god-killing bent to their stories.
For non-JRPgs, in one of the later Legacy of Kain games (possibly Defiance):
you kill the Elder God, who is a Lovecraftian-like blob of tentacles and eyes squatting in the Abyss. Although to be fair, Raziel does have doubts about the "godhood" of this being, both before and after the fight. Still, he most likely qualifies under the "around during the creation of the universe" and he claims to be involved in the Wheel of Fate, which is some sort of judgment/reincarnation deal.
Dragon Age spoilers follow!
Practically all of the Dragon Age games really. The Archdemon from Origins is a dragon worshipped in ancient Tevinter, and Corypheus from both 2 and Inquisition not only wants to rip open the Fade and become a god but is also an aspect of the Blight which can pretty much threaten the whole world.
And then, you know. Whatever happens/will happen with Sol- I mean Fen'Harel the Dread Wolf.
And then, you know. Whatever happens/will happen with Sol- I mean Fen'Harel the Dread Wolf.
Well, not quite.totheendofsin said:
In the setting of Bayonetta, the Trinity of Realities (Which encompasses Light, Darkness, and Chaos. Paradiso, Inferno, and Human World, respectively) used to be one single realm. It's not known what this realm was called, but after an unrecorded grand struggle, called the "First Armageddon", this reality was split into the Trinity. Each realm of the Trinity has its own ruler, Paradiso is presided over by Jubileus, Queen Sheba commands Inferno, while Aesir rules ("ruled", really, past tense) the Human World.
Jubileus was imprisoned at the end of the First Armageddon, when the Trinity was split into Light, Dark, and Chaos. The statue in the first game is Jubileus' prison, effectively, and the Eyes of the World were what was needed to release her. As you learn from the second game, the Eyes of the World originated from Aesir, the God of Chaos. When the Human World was first created, Aesir spent the first eternity quietly looking down at the Earth from his holy mountain. Where humans only saw reality and made it match their rules of the world, Aesir saw through reality, and those visions became their world. Aesir came to pity humans for their naivety and lack of free will, and split his power into two equal halves and entrusted each to humanity's instincts. These halves became the Eyes of the World, and by dividing Aesir's power, humans gained free will. The inheritors of the eyes of Aesir had been granted the power of creation.
While the Eyes are a creation of Aesir, it's only because of the power they granted that Jubileus was able to be resurrected, so it's not really accurate to say that Aesir "created" Jubileus, despite Aesir's power being used to resurrect her. In actuality, Bayonetta uses the 'God' of Inferno to kill the God of Paradiso, and then defeats the God of Chaos, whose spirit gets trapped in Young Balder's body and is sent back in time to start the events of the first Bayonetta, and then Aesir's spirit finally perishes altogether with Balder's death in the beginning of Bayonetta 2.
Now, there is some speculation that Omne, the name of the final summon in Bayonetta 2, is actually the true creator of everything and simply split herself up when the Trinity was created. But this is all just speculation and doesn't really have much backing it up.
Jubileus was imprisoned at the end of the First Armageddon, when the Trinity was split into Light, Dark, and Chaos. The statue in the first game is Jubileus' prison, effectively, and the Eyes of the World were what was needed to release her. As you learn from the second game, the Eyes of the World originated from Aesir, the God of Chaos. When the Human World was first created, Aesir spent the first eternity quietly looking down at the Earth from his holy mountain. Where humans only saw reality and made it match their rules of the world, Aesir saw through reality, and those visions became their world. Aesir came to pity humans for their naivety and lack of free will, and split his power into two equal halves and entrusted each to humanity's instincts. These halves became the Eyes of the World, and by dividing Aesir's power, humans gained free will. The inheritors of the eyes of Aesir had been granted the power of creation.
While the Eyes are a creation of Aesir, it's only because of the power they granted that Jubileus was able to be resurrected, so it's not really accurate to say that Aesir "created" Jubileus, despite Aesir's power being used to resurrect her. In actuality, Bayonetta uses the 'God' of Inferno to kill the God of Paradiso, and then defeats the God of Chaos, whose spirit gets trapped in Young Balder's body and is sent back in time to start the events of the first Bayonetta, and then Aesir's spirit finally perishes altogether with Balder's death in the beginning of Bayonetta 2.
Now, there is some speculation that Omne, the name of the final summon in Bayonetta 2, is actually the true creator of everything and simply split herself up when the Trinity was created. But this is all just speculation and doesn't really have much backing it up.
But yeah, she pretty much annihilates the Hierarchy of the Laguna, kills off a Demoness and a bunch of lesser demons, and then kills the God of the Human World.
Well, Shadow Hearts that isn't really GOD but an OUTER GOD, basically one of H.P. Lovecrafts peeps(a vastly powerful alien being far beyond the comprehension of a mortal mind). Now in the SEQUEL you fight and killKoudelkaMorgan said:
Susano-O, one of the God's of the Japanese Shinto pantheon(brother of Amaterasu actually, the Goddess of the Sun and technically the mother of all from my understanding).
For my own experience...Chrono Trigger actually comes to mind(and then Chrono Cross) because of Lavos. A vastly powerful alien parasite that absorbs and assimilates life over millennium once it lands on a planet, it even influences how life evolves so it has "better food" later on basically and in the game(s)
allows mankind to ascend from apes and if it wasn't for Lavos humankind wouldn't exist at all basically
he gets shunted to the End of Time when you kill him where he transforms into a timeline devouring thing that you need to shunt from the timeline or eventually everything is doomed
Two games pop into my mind-
Xenoblade Chronicle- Ok it kinda a twist if you haven't far into the game.
Okami- You're up against the god of darkness Yami.
Xenoblade Chronicle- Ok it kinda a twist if you haven't far into the game.
Okami- You're up against the god of darkness Yami.
I think the finale in Grandia II is against a god/godlike being or some chulthuesque cosmic horror space thingy.
The eventual PvE endgame of Skyforge (as in, it probably wont be in the game for another year or so) will be to invade the worlds of other great gods.
But at the moment theres killing thier avatars as they invade Aelinar, and fighting other lesser gods (player characters) in PvP.
But at the moment theres killing thier avatars as they invade Aelinar, and fighting other lesser gods (player characters) in PvP.
Indeed it is.Dreiko said:
Welcome to every final fantasy game ever in which the bad guy becomes god and wants to end all suffering by brutally hatefucking the world in half because religion bad or whatever. It has a high chance of devolving into pseudo-philosophical wankery.
Which squeenix rpgs inevitably do.
This trope is basically where stories go to die.
Which squeenix rpgs inevitably do.
This trope is basically where stories go to die.
In Runescape, you kill Gielinor; a human-borne god, woven by a madman from the collective souls of the Planet's various underworlds (Death is the first person to die on the planet, also called Gielinor). it's basically a mindless puppet that's made of corpses, being kept alive by an arcane device that destroys and siphons living souls into itself.
though in Runescape, the traditional gods tend to be mortal-borne or just ascended in power by external means. the closest to a more omnipotent god would be Mah, an Elder God. though you only endure her Nightmares-given-life, after that quest, it's said that she's clawing through the multiverse to get some sort of primal revenge/hunger.
Other than that, you also passively kill some lesser gods in events, and partially during world events. Bandos and Tuska are dead though not directly by us. Gods in the Runescape universe are just empowered mortals who tends to have the ability to freely teleport, change size, fire beams and possibly shapeshift. whilst the Elder Gods themselves are nearly incomprehensible and create/destroy matter, and are pretty unkillable.
And Mah? the other elder gods thought she was stillborn, and she's been passively sucking an already dry planet...drier, a planet that's the only remains from the old universe before the time where the game's set. when the other elder gods wake up on the most perfect planet they produced, then they'll drain the energy from the entire universe, leaving that planet as a husk for the next universe and possibly the elder gods that hatches there.
though in Runescape, the traditional gods tend to be mortal-borne or just ascended in power by external means. the closest to a more omnipotent god would be Mah, an Elder God. though you only endure her Nightmares-given-life, after that quest, it's said that she's clawing through the multiverse to get some sort of primal revenge/hunger.
Other than that, you also passively kill some lesser gods in events, and partially during world events. Bandos and Tuska are dead though not directly by us. Gods in the Runescape universe are just empowered mortals who tends to have the ability to freely teleport, change size, fire beams and possibly shapeshift. whilst the Elder Gods themselves are nearly incomprehensible and create/destroy matter, and are pretty unkillable.
And Mah? the other elder gods thought she was stillborn, and she's been passively sucking an already dry planet...drier, a planet that's the only remains from the old universe before the time where the game's set. when the other elder gods wake up on the most perfect planet they produced, then they'll drain the energy from the entire universe, leaving that planet as a husk for the next universe and possibly the elder gods that hatches there.
I think FFX probably does it, if you count Yu Yevon and Sin as being gods, which a whole world did for thousands of years. God of War also, you know, really took that to a literal extreme. It's three (+1) games of murdering an entire pantheons of gods.
Let's see...
Breath of Fire, taken. Asura's Wrath, taken. Final Fantasy, lots of taken. Grandia, taken. Hmmm...
At this point, I'm going to have to mention Project X Zone and Project X Zone 2. In both, you come to battle a god with the ability to alter dimensions.
Wait, Kirby's faced beings like that before, right? Do they count as gods?
Breath of Fire, taken. Asura's Wrath, taken. Final Fantasy, lots of taken. Grandia, taken. Hmmm...
At this point, I'm going to have to mention Project X Zone and Project X Zone 2. In both, you come to battle a god with the ability to alter dimensions.
Wait, Kirby's faced beings like that before, right? Do they count as gods?
Pick any shin Megami Tensei Game (Including The Persona Spinoffs). Chances are, you're killing SOME kind of Divine Entity at the end. SMTIV, has you either killing archangel Michael, Lucifer, Michael AND Lucifer, or everything in existence with its 4 endings. Persona 3 has you seal away the embodiment of human's desire for death, and in the epilogue yhou temporarily kill something that's kind of that but not (it's complicated). Compared to that, P4's ending of beating the god of the underworld seems fairly tame. Though I think the final boss in Persona 2 is Hitler or something, so that breaks the trend.